Set to be sentenced Monday morning in U.S. District Court, Randall Morrison, 50, admitted to stealing $142,000 from the Ronald McDonald House Holiday Cruise fund.

Morrison served as treasurer of the charity, which paid for holiday events for children and families receiving services through Ronald McDonald House; he was not affiliated with the larger charity, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska.

Morrison’s thefts left the smaller holiday charity crippled and largely unable to continue its mission.

“The heartlessness of his acts is indescribable,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Masada told the court.

Fans of “The Simpsons” hoping for some enlightenment on Sunday — when the latest episode of “The Simpsons” was broadcast — had to be disappointed, unless they were too busy guffawing. In the show’s title sequence, there’s an iconic scene where Bart Simpson is being punished by having to repeatedly write a declaratory sentence on a class chalkboard. As part of a long-running gag, the words change for virtually every episode.

On Sunday’s show, the giggling Bart chose to write these words several times in all-caps lettering: “THE TRUE LOCATION OF SPRINGFIELD IS IN ANY STATE BUT YOURS.”

Quit messing with us, Groening!

Finally, we wanted to point out something new from the ever-interesting GeekWire, which has launches a Seattle-centric version of Shark Tank by giving budding entrepreneurs 43 seconds, the exact length of a ride up the Space Needle elevator, to pitch their big idea.